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How to Double Your iPhone's Battery Life

Written by: Rocco Pendola07/15/13 - 5:57 PM EDT

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- I stopped and started several times before deciding to publish this article.

There's reason to have hesitated. One, I'm reluctant to write an article that reads like an ad for a product. Two, this isn't the type of article I typically write. Three, there's not much to say other than the answer to the question the title poses. And, four, I might be telling plenty of people something they already know.

But then I thought again ... if I didn't know about this, enough other folks likely exist who don't either, making it all worthwhile. Plus this is a big problem for a lot of people, if my Twitter feed serves as an any indication.

Battery life on Apple's iPhone. Namely iPhone 5. Depending on how you use your phone, it can leave a lot to be desired. Personally I have never had much of a problem, but enough people complain that one likely exists. From an investment perspective, some folks are bearish AAPL because they see Samsung and others passing Apple by.

I dealt with more of a "charge" issue last week when I was traveling in the Northeast. I left my iPhone charger at TheStreet's office on Wall Street when I left Wednesday evening. Staying in Midtown Manhattan, I didn't want to go back to fetch it or trek to the Apple Store (even though it was quite close to my hotel); as such I was left without a charger and, headed into my Thursday Amtrak trip from Penn Station to Washington, D.C., with a dying phone.

No big deal I figured. If I can't get a charge, I can live without the phone until I can bum a little white cord off of somebody. On the train, the gentleman seated next to me let me use his charger. That got me up to about 75%. But, by the time I arrived at my destination in DC, I was almost depleted.